§ 42-4-218 — Single-beam road-lighting equipment

(1) Head lamps arranged
to provide a single distribution of light not supplemented by auxiliary driving lamps
shall be permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to July 15, 1936,
in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment specified in section 42-4-216 if the
single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:

(a) The head lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded
none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall, at a distance of twenty-five feet
ahead, project higher than a level of five inches below the level of the center of the
lamp from which it comes and in no case higher than forty-two inches above the
level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five feet ahead.

(b) The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a
distance of at least two hundred feet.

(2) Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class B
traffic infraction.

Legislative History

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2253, � 1, effective January 1, 1995.